I used it at work recently to update my work-provided HP Thunderbolt dock, and it resolved an issue where the external monitors would fail to activate after resuming from standby. I never got an update notification when I was using my Windows laptop so I was oblivious to it; it was only thanks to connecting it to my Linux laptop and fwupd, that I found out there was an update, which subsequently resolved the issue.

I love it when stuff like this happens and Linux saves the day. =) (and I get to show off to my Windows ~~heathens~~ colleagues.)

I'm here just to join you shouting out. Great peace of software.

FYI fwupd also works on windows

There's an MSI in the releases https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/releases

I thought I read somewhere that windows update would eventually pull from lvfs but I can't find a source for that

Either it doesn't support my mobo, or my mobo doesn't support firmware updates from inside the OS. I had to update my mobo manually yesterday. At least I now get a clean boot without any irq handler warnings.

Looks like they have no idea how to get their software working using Nix. The following blurb is absurd to most GUIX or Nix users:

NOTE: In most cases, end users should never compile fwupd from scratch; it's a complicated project with dozens of dependencies (and as many configuration options) and there's just too many things that can go wrong.

Users should just have fwupd installed and updated by their distro, managed and tested by the package maintainer. The distribution will have also done some testing with how fwupd interacts with other software on your system, for instance using GNOME Software.